DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 151 
A. laetum. Sw. Syn. 79, 271, 1806; C. Chr. Index , 117. 
A. erectum Bory, var. brachyotus. Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st eel., 
138. 
A. brachyotus. Kunze, Linnaea , 10, 512; Pappe and Rawson, 18; 
Buchanan’s List, No. 57 ; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 99 ; Wood’s Natal 
Ferns , 21. 
Natal.— From coast to 3000 ft (Buchanan, Wood, Gueinzius); be- 
tween the Omsamcaba and the Omsamwobo (Drege); Nkandhla 
(Marriott); Buccleuch (W. Leighton); Benvie (Marriott); Zwaartkop, 
Sweetwaters, Bulwer, Ngoya, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Rhodesia. — Chirinda Forest, 3700 to 4000 ft (Swynnerton, 840 and 
840 b). 
66. Asplenium anisophyllum Kze. 
Plate 53. Nat. size. B Larger deeply cut form, c Venation 
and Sorus, enlarged. 
Crown erect, paleaceous. Frond herbaceous, glabrous, 
simply pinnate, lanceolate, one and a half to two feet long, 
four to six inches broad, with a green stipe one foot long, 
glabrous above, but paleaceous towards the base, and a some- 
what winged rachis. Pinnae twelve to twenty pairs, shortly 
petioled, broadly lanceolate, from a shortly cuneate base, 
attenuated toward the point, two to four inches long, half 
to one inch broad, deeply toothed throughout except the two 
basal edges ; the teeth mostly in pairs, and rather obtuse. 
Sori short, oblong, swollen, placed near the mid-rib, and 
reaching only about halfway to the edge. Lower pinnae 
slightly reduced. Terminal pinna rather larger than those 
near it, and often subtended by a bud. In some fronds the 
pinnae have a long narrow point, as in fig. B (var. elongatum 
Kze.), in others they are shorter and more obtuse, and approach 
A. laetum ; but both can be found on one plant, and there is 
evidently no permanent form, though A. Boltoni Hk. is founded 
on a deeply inciso-crenate form, and the var. microphylla , of 
Kuhn, is a small state. 
Nelson’s 482 (Transvaal) is a large form, with fronds 
three feet long, nine inches wide, and the pinnae deeply 
cut (Plate 53 b), but texture, venation, fructification, etc. are 
as in the typical form. 
